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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2017 3:21 PM, mayqel qunenoS
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAP7F2c+F+B4aPMzsrrzPWBhsCkaje+O6V1vevWsdsuGJ6fgP5g@mail.gmail.com"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">SuStel:</span>
<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> You're
using "fourth year," but to me "fourth year" is counting </span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> years
as they occur, not counting them backwards.</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br>
</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I see your
point. Unfortunately, I can't think of an alternate way of
saying it.</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.696px">Unless we wrote:</span></font></div>
<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.696px"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.696px">{tagh noH, 'ej ghIq -qaSDI' loS
DIS- bogh}</span></font></div>
<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.696px">the war begun, and then -as soon
as four years had happened- he was born</span></font></div>
<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.696px"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.696px">What is your opinion on this
approach ?</span></font></div>
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<p>I like it better, though I wouldn't fiddle with interruptions
like that. <b>taghpu' noH; qaSpu' loS DIS; boghpu' ghaH</b><i>
The war began; four years occurred; he was born.</i> You can
then refer to that time as <b>ngugh.</b><br>
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